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A Response to Your Petition on Edward Snowden

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Re: A Response to Your Petition on Edward Snowden

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> He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers -- not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Not sure what I was expecting.

I am not from the USA and have little knowledge of such legal processes.

Would he really be judged by his a jury of his peers? I was under the impression that he would forever be put to jail for treason the minute he stepped on American soil.

Re: A Response to Your Petition on Edward Snowden

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Even if Obama believes this nonsense, he should still pardon him, if only to take a bit of wind out of Russia's sails. Snowden's impact on the US has been entirely 100% positive and he represents no threat whatsoever to national security. I find it a lot more conscionable than pardoning some well connected extortionist or whoever they usually pardon at the end of their term.
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